GRAZIANO RICCARDI (1997) Composer and Professor.
Graduated in Piano at the “U. Giordano” Conservatory of Foggia with Alessandro Deljavan. He first obtained the Bachelor in Composition at the “E. R. Duni” Conservatory in Matera and then the Master in Composition at the “N. Rota” Conservatory in Monopoli with Federico Gardella and Riccardo Panfili with full marks. He graduated in Composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia Rome where he studied first with Ivan Fedele and then with Alessandro Solbiati.
Particularly important for his training were the meetings with Francesco Filidei, as well as those with Salvatore Sciarrino, Luca Cori, Marco di Bari, Juste Janulyte, Mauro Lanza, Biagio Putignano, Ada Gentile, Fabien Lévy, Oscar Bianchi and Juri Seo.
Assistant (2021-2022) to Jan Müller-Wieland in the composition class of the “Hochschule für Musik und Theater” in Munich, Germany. In April 2023 he curated a Conference at the Conservatorio Superior de Mùsica “Joaquin Rodrigo” de Valencia in Spain and in August of the same year he held a Masterclass in Composition at ECAV in Mexico City, Mexico. He was a professor of Composition (2023-2024) at the “Maderna-Lettimi” State Conservatory in Cesena.
He is the winner of various composition competitions, in particular of: I prize in the IV edition of the “Giuseppe Alberghini Prize” (2019); finalist in the XV edition of the National Arts Award (2021); I prize of the first edition “Euregio Klassika-The ways of water” (2022); he was a finalist in the second edition (2023) in the “Luciano Berio” International Composition Competition; I prize of the XIV edition (2023) of the “Città di Udine” International Composition Competition; (2023) special prize in the III edition of the “Ise-Shima International Composition Competition” in Japan; II prize of the 5th International Composers’ Competition “New Music Generation” (2023) in Kazakhstan; I Call for Score award “Le Note Ritrovate” (2023); I prize of the XXV edition of the “Franco Evangelisti” International Composition Competition (2023) – Nuova Consonanza; Special Mention of the Jury in the XXX edition (2024) of the International Composition Competition “2 Agosto” in Bologna.
His music is regularly performed in Europe and Latin America by Alessandro Deljavan, Amedeo Chicchese, Jorge Juarez Alvarez, Baltazar Chavarria, Filippo Mazzoli, Denis Zardi, Marina Boselli, Andrea Carrozzo, Valeria Fasiello, Michele Fontana, Giovanna Virgin, Jacopo Petrucci, Sara Mazzarotto, Michele Di Modugno, Gianluca Faragli, Eccetera Saxophone, Divertimento Ensemble (dir. Sandro Gorli), Spoldzienlnia Muzyczna Contemporary Ensemble, Ensemble Zenit, Torino String Ensemble, Arrigoni String Orchestra, Ensemble del Novecento (dir. Pasquale Corrado) and many others.
Since 2022 his music has been published with Edizioni Sconfinarte, and since 2024 also with Edizioni SZ Sugar.